blind man’s buff
noun/ˌblaɪnd mænz ˈbʌf/
/ˌblaɪnd mænz ˈbʌf/
(North American English also blind man’s bluff)
[uncountable]- a children’s game in which a player whose eyes are covered with a piece of cloth tries to catch and identify the other playersTopics Games and toysc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from buff ‘a blow’, from Old French bufe ‘a blow’.
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